Ludlow v. Free’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2006
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Nysewander v. Lowman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Cohoon v. Fisher · First National Bank v. Flynn · American Car & Foundry Co. v. Smock
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a promisor stipulates in a contract for the performance of a condition which he then knows can not [sic] be performed, and the impossibility of performance is unknown to the other party to the contract, the promisor must be held to have intended to make himself absolutely liable without regard to the performance of the condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party would not be permitted to choose one inconsistent remedy and prosecute an action thereon to a conclusion and then contend that he did not intend thereby to abandon or waive another inconsistent remedial right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At the time the agreement was made [the nonperforming parties] knew they had not taken the necessary steps to comply with said Act and were bound to know that an award of the Industrial Board would not be procured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.